abbess, position of,87,152,203,365ff.,388Abra, St,14Achachildis or Atzin,34Adela,40,seeAdolanaAdelheid, abbess at Gandersheim,273Adelheid, abbess at Nivelles,152footnoteAdelheid, abbess at Quedlinburg,152Adelheid Helchen, abbess at Oberwerth,421Adelitia, nun,213Adeliz, abbess at Winchester,210Admunt, convent at,237Adolana, St, abbess at Pfälzel,124Aebbe, St, abbess at Coldingham,97,101-103Aebbe, mother of Lioba,134Aelfgifu or Emma, queen, makes a gift of hangings,226Aelflaed, abbess at Whitby,90,93,94,103-106,124,126,225Aelflaed, queen, makes a gift of hangings,226Aelfthrith, abbess at Repton,108Aethelburg, St, abbess at Barking,111,112Aethelburg St, or Aubierge, abbess at Brie,78Aethelburg, abbess (at Hackness?),94,106Aethelburg, queen, founds a convent at Liming,84Aetheldritha, abbess at Southminstre in Thanet,87Aethelthrith, St, or Etheldred or Awdry,96-99,101,225Aette, abbess at Folkestone,87Afra, St, of Augsburg,31,32-33Afra von Velseck, nun,425ff.Agatha, St, of Catania,16,17,141Agilbert, St,76Agius, interested in nuns,154,155,157-159Agnes, St, of Rome,18,167,314,327Agnes, St, abbess at Poitiers,52,55-65Agnes, St, princess of Bohemia,293,296-297,298Agnes, abbess at Quedlinburg,233,234Agnes Ferrar, abbess at Shaftesbury,365Agnes Litherland, prioress at Gracedieu,449Agnes Merrett, cellaress at Sion,393Agnes Seyntel, prioress at Cambridge,367Agnes Terry, prioress at Catesby,369Ailred, his connection with nuns,215,218,313-314,321,325Alburgh or Aethelburgh, convent of St,seeBarkingAlena, St,26Aleydis, lay sister at Bronope,419Aleydis Ruyskop, nun at Rolandswerth,428Alice Fitzherbert, abbess at Polesworth,447Alice Henley, abbess at Godstow,360Alice Wafer, prioress at Prée,410alien priories, their number and appropriation,386-387Altwick, convent at,273Alwid, embroideress,226Amalberga, St,23Ambrosius, bishop of Milan, on Virginity,14,on St Agnes,167Amesbury, convent at,194,201,203,205,454ancre, defined,312‘Ancren Riwle,’311-325,357Angiltrud, nun,138Ankerwyke, convent at,357,443Anna, duchess of Silesia,295-296,298Anne Boleyn, intends to retire to a nunnery,437Anne Seton, prioress at Chatteris,449anonymous nun, author of ‘Hodoeporicon’ etc.,139ff.Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, in connection with women,184,208-211Anselma, nun,213Ansterbert, St, or Austreberta,76Anstrud, St, or Austrudis,77Apollonia Tucher, nun at Nürnberg,460Arles, convent at,48-50,52,56,226armarium or bookcase,216,223Armengard von Rheden, abbess at Fischbeck,418Atzin or Achachildis,34Augustine, rule of St,196Augustine, canons of,seeAustin or BlackAurea, St,76Austreberta,seeAnsterbertAustin or Black canons,186,196,197,209Austin canonesses,150,197,364,371,420Austrudis,seeAnstrudAwdry,seeAethelthrithBalbine, St,30Balthild, St,71,73,74-78Bamberg, convent of St Clara at,459Barbara Dalberg, nun at Marienberg,429Barbara Schöndorfer, abbess at Sonnenburg,427Barking, convent at,111,112,113,116,121,201,203,358,363,372,377,378,443,455Basina, nun at Poitiers,65,67-69Baudonivia, nun at Poitiers,46,52,65Bega, St,89Begu, nun at Hackness,89,93beguine, defined,331Benedict, St, rule of,50,73,74,77,186,198,215;Anglo-Saxon version of,312;rhymed version of,358ff.Benedictine nunneries, number of, in England,204,364Bergen, convent at,204,460,474Berkley on Severn, convent at,202Berlindis, St,26,27,31Bernard of Clairvaux,190,258,260Berthegund,69-70Berthgit, nun,139, also footnoteBerthild, St, or Bertilia, abbess at Chelles,77Bilihild, St,29Bingen, convent at,263ff.Bischofsheim, convent at,136,137,138Bona,211Boniface, his correspondence with women,118-142,225,232Bourges, convent at,230Breslau, convent of St Clara at,295Bridget, St, of Ireland,14footnoteBridget, St, of Sweden,383ff.Bridget Belgrave, chambress at Sion,392Brie or Faremoutiers, convent at,76,77Brixen, convent of St Clara at,424,459Bromhall, convent at,369,436Bronope, convent at,418Brunshausen, convent at,155Brusyard, convent at,447Buckland, convent at,365Bugga, correspondent of Boniface,131-133Bugga, daughter of King Centwin,113Bugga or Heaburg,131Burngith, nun at Barking,113Bursfeld, congregation of,415Busch, reformer of nunneries,417ff.Butzbach, his correspondence with nuns,428Caesaria, St, abbess at Arles,48,52,56Caesaria II, abbess at Arles,56Caesarius, St, rule of,48-50,226Cambridge, convent of St Radegund at,367,380,435and footnotecameraria,seechambressCampsey, convent at,360,376,377,378Cangith,128footnoteCanonlegh,seeLeghcantarista,seeleader of the choirCanterbury, convent of St Sepulchre at,403,439capellanissa,seechaplainCarrow, convent at,378Catesby, convent at,368-369,447-448Cathari,273,281Catherine de la Pole, abbess at Barking,378Cecil Bodman, abbess at Wilton,438footnote,441Cecilia, St, legend of, in English,326cellaress or celleraria, office of,216,368,371ff.,393celleraria,seecellaressCeltes, his connection with nuns,183,461ff.chambress or cameraria, office of,378,392Charitas Pirckheimer, abbess at Nürnberg,458ff.Chartreuse, order of,186,199chaplain, female, or capellanissa, office of,376-378Chatteris, convent at,381,401,449Chaucer on nuns,361,362Chelles or Cala, convent at,75,77,78,82,86Chester, convent of St Mary at,448Chicksand, convent at,445Chlotildis,41Christiane, St,25,29Christina, nun,213Christina, nun at Romsey,207,208Christina, prioress at Mergate,227Christina Basset, prioress at St Mary Prée,365,410Christine, abbess at Gandersheim,159Christine Strölin, abbess at Söflingen,422Chrodield, nun at Poitiers,50,66-69,226Chrothild, St, queen,51Chunigundis, abbess at Göss,235Chunihild, nun,138,139footnoteChunitrud, nun,139Citeaux, order of,186,189-192Cistercian nunneries, number of, in England,363Clara, St, of Assisi,296Clara, St, convent of, at Brixen, Nürnberg, etc.,seeBrixen, Nürnberg, etc.Clara Gundelfingen, abbess at Nürnberg,459Clara Pirckheimer, nun at Nürnberg,459ff.Clares, Poor, or Nuns Minoresses,364Clemence, nun at Barking,357Clement, St, convent of, at York,seeYorkClugni, order of,186,187-189Clugniac nunneries, number of, in England,363Coldingham, convent at,97,101,102Cöln, convent of St Maria at,152footnote,421Columban, St, rule of,72,73,77consecration of nuns,380Cordula, St,283Crabhouse, convent at,358Cunera, St,21,29,43Cusanus, as monastic reformer,416,422ff.Cuthberht, his connection with abbesses,102-105,225Cuthburg, St, of Wimbourne,106,113,116Cuthburg, suffering torments in hell,121Cwenburg, St, of Wimbourne,116Cwenburg, nun at Watton,91Cyneburg, St, of Castor,106,107Cynehild, nun,135Cyneswith, St, of Castor,107Cynethrith, abbess,225Davington, convent at,357,380Delapray, convent at,447Dennis, convent at,449,450Derneburg, convent at,417,420Didimia, abbess at Poitiers,65Diemud, scribe,236-237Disibodenberg, nuns’ convent attached to,262Dollendis,seeRolendisDominican friars, abroad,291,295,332;in England,309Dominican nuns,364Dominican nunneries, number of, in England,364Dorothy Barley, abbess at Barking,455Dorstad, convent at,418Eadburg, abbess at Thanet,120,121,122,123,225Eadburga,84Eadgifu, abbess at Leominster,202Eadgith, nun at Barking,112Ealdgith, nun at Barking,113Ealdhelm, interested in nuns,112-115,172,226Eangith, correspondent of Boniface,118,128-131Eanswith, St, of Folkestone,83Earcongotha, St,78,85Easebourne, convent at,360,366,376,403,404-406Easington, convent at,93East Dereham, convent at,96ebdomary, office of,390Ebsdorf, convent at,236Ecgburg, abbess at Repton,109,126Edelind, abbess at Niedermünster,241Edigna, St,27Edward’s, St, convent of, at Shaftesbury,seeShaftesburyEger, convent of St Clara at,466Eichstätt, convent of St Walburg at,421Einbeth or Einbetta, St,40Eleanor, queen, takes the veil at Amesbury,201elemosinaria, office of,378Elisabeth, St, of Thüringen and Hungary,285,295,298-304Elisabeth, St, nun at Schönau,257,277-285,429Elisabeth Krelin, abbess at Heggbach,421Elisabeth von Mansfeld, nun at Helfta,329Elisabeth von Seckendorf, abbess at Eichstätt,421Elizabeth Barton,439Elizabeth Shelley, abbess at Winchester,448,449,454,455Elizabeth Zouche, abbess at Shaftesbury,455Elizabeth Throgmerton, abbess at Dennis,450Elizabeth Walton, nun at Cambridge,367,368Elizabeth Webb, prioress at Sopwell,410Ellandune, convent at,seeWiltonElstow, convent at,204footnote,377Ely, convent at,95-106,202,225,226embroidery done by nuns,224ff.Engelthal, convent at,471Eormenhild, St, abbess at Sheppey and Ely,100Erasmus, on canons,195,on the position of women,429ff.Erfurt, convent at,236eruditrix, office of,379Essen, convent at,148,149,151,232Ethel-,seeunderAethel-Eufemia, abbess at Winchester,366Eulalia, abbess at Shaftesbury,210Eulalia, nun at Barking,113Euphemia Pirckheimer, abbess at Bergen,460Eustadiola, St, abbess at Bourges,230Eutropia,35,seeOntkommerEva, recluse,211Everhild, St,111‘Exercitia Spiritualia,’ by St Gertrud,351ff.‘Explanatio regulae St Benedicti,’ by St Hildegard,270‘Explanatio symboli St Athanasii,’ by St Hildegard,270‘Expositiones Evangeliorum,’ by St Hildegard,270Fara, St, abbess at Brie,76Faremoutiers, convent at,seeBrieFécamp, convent at,77Felicitas Grundherrin, nun at Nürnberg,460,471Fischbeck, convent at,418‘Fliessende, das, Licht der Gottheit,’ by Mechthild,332ff.Flixton, convent at,369,377Florence Bannerman, abbess at Amesbury,454Folkestone, convent at,83,87